Rethinking Refugee Activism within and beyond the State: The Trajectory of Refugee Activism
Rethinking Refugee Activism within and beyond the State: The Trajectory of Refugee Activism

Author(s): Birce Altıok Karşıyaka
Subject(s): Politics, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sociology, Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Activism; autonomy; control; citizenship; refugee; space;
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to build a spatial model on refugees’ political struggle for human rights with connection to activism and social movement theories in relation to sovereign control spaces. The research undertakes an interdependent theoretical approach to Critical Citizenship Studies (CCS) and Autonomy of Migrants (AoM) perspectives through categorizing forms of activism under the hierarchical model of migrants’ access to rights by decomposing variance in refugee activism cases. Through such classification, it aims to find a middle ground for the discussions between refugee/migrant struggle within the AoM and CCS by integrating the limits of right-based actions that are shaped by the sovereign state policies and practices using empirical evidences collected from Greece and Turkey for the period between 2011-2016.

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